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What Did Jesus Mean When He Said, Love Your Enemies?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Posted by Jimmie Burroughs- Email this article to a friend Atheist Bill Maher is wrong about Christians. Jesus said, “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you,” (Matthew 5:44). Atheist Bill Maher is within his rights to take whatever view he wants, but before he ridicules Christians, in all fairness, he should at least make an effort to understand the theology. However, usually when atheists do get it, they are no…
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The Parable of the Talents and Personal Development
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email this article to a friend The parable of the talents is a great teaching of Jesus on morals. It was given as an exhortation to his disciples. In the parable, each servant was given a different amount of money based on his or her qualifications to manage it. While a talent in Greek is a measure of weight, it is interesting to apply the parable to the English word talent or ability. Different people are gifted with different talents. Some are far more gifted than others, but the…
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The Cost of Christian Discipleship…
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email this article to a friend If Jesus was wanting followers who were just followers in name only, he could have had thousands instead of a the few that left everything to follow him. When Jesus discussed the cost of discipleship, most people turned to follow him no more, thousands at a time. It almost seemed if Jesus was discouraging people from following him; he wasn’t, he just wanted to be clear concerning the cost of Christian discipleship and what was expected; for the majority the cost was too much.…